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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Adding to this argument

Why is the law important? If Gregory clearly violated the law,
but there is no interest to be served in prosecuting him, doesn't that
prove that the law is not important? If the precise thing that he did —
which is clearly what is defined as a crime — raises no interest in
prosecution, how can we be satisfied by letting this one nice famous man
go? Rewrite the law so that it only covers the activity that the
government believes deserves prosecution, so there is equal justice
under the law.

Let me add my two cents to that - If the law is so unimportant that the D.C. police can't be bothered to enforce it when one of the political favorites violates it, then I have no interest in following ANY of the laws of D.C., because they've just proven that rather than being based in objective reality and moral certainty, the laws of D.C. are subjective, capricious and based on political favoritism. And since their laws are subjective, capricious and based on political favoritism, I do not have the obligation to follow them that I would have with objective laws based on moral certainty.